#============================================================= -*-perl-*- # # Template::Manual::Plugins # # DESCRIPTION # This section lists the standard plugins which can be used to extend # the runtime functionality of the Template Toolkit. The plugins are # distributed with the Template Toolkit but may required additional # modules from CPAN. # # AUTHOR # Andy Wardley # # COPYRIGHT # Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. # Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd. # # This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. # # REVISION # # #======================================================================== #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # IMPORTANT NOTE # This documentation is generated automatically from source # templates. Any changes you make here may be lost. # # The 'docsrc' documentation source bundle is available for download # from http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs.html and contains all # the source templates, XML files, scripts, etc., from which the # documentation for the Template Toolkit is built. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ =head1 NAME Template::Manual::Plugins - Standard plugins =head1 DESCRIPTION This section lists the standard plugins which can be used to extend the runtime functionality of the Template Toolkit. The plugins are distributed with the Template Toolkit but may required additional modules from CPAN. =head1 TEMPLATE TOOLKIT PLUGINS The following plugin modules are distributed with the Template Toolkit. Some of the plugins interface to external modules (detailed below) which should be downloaded from any CPAN site and installed before using the plugin. =head2 Autoformat The Autoformat plugin is an interface to Damian Conway's Text::Autoformat Perl module which provides advanced text wrapping and formatting. See L and L for further details. [% USE autoformat(left=10, right=20) %] [% autoformat(mytext) %] # call autoformat sub [% mytext FILTER autoformat %] # or use autoformat filter The Text::Autoformat module is available from CPAN: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Text/ =head2 CGI The CGI plugin is a wrapper around Lincoln Stein's Elstein@genome.wi.mit.eduE CGI.pm module. The plugin is distributed with the Template Toolkit (see L) and the CGI module itself is distributed with recent versions Perl, or is available from CPAN. [% USE CGI %] [% CGI.param('param_name') %] [% CGI.start_form %] [% CGI.popup_menu( Name => 'color', Values => [ 'Green', 'Brown' ] ) %] [% CGI.end_form %] =head2 Datafile Provides an interface to data stored in a plain text file in a simple delimited format. The first line in the file specifies field names which should be delimiter by any non-word character sequence. Subsequent lines define data using the same delimiter as in the first line. Blank lines and comments (lines starting '#') are ignored. See L for further details. /tmp/mydata: # define names for each field id : email : name : tel # here's the data fred : fred@here.com : Fred Smith : 555-1234 bill : bill@here.com : Bill White : 555-5678 example: [% USE userlist = datafile('/tmp/mydata') %] [% FOREACH user = userlist %] [% user.name %] ([% user.id %]) [% END %] =head2 Date The Date plugin provides an easy way to generate formatted time and date strings by delegating to the POSIX strftime() routine. See L and L for further details. [% USE date %] [% date.format %] # current time/date File last modified: [% date.format(template.modtime) %] =head2 Directory The Directory plugin provides a simple interface to a directory and the files within it. See L for further details. [% USE dir = Directory('/tmp') %] [% FOREACH file = dir.files %] # all the plain files in the directory [% END %] [% FOREACH file = dir.dirs %] # all the sub-directories [% END %] =head2 DBI The DBI plugin is no longer distributed as part of the Template Toolkit (as of version 2.15). It is now available as a separate Template-Plugin-DBI distribution from CPAN. =head2 Dumper The Dumper plugin provides an interface to the Data::Dumper module. See L and L for futher details. [% USE dumper(indent=0, pad="
") %] [% dumper.dump(myvar, yourvar) %] =head2 File The File plugin provides a general abstraction for files and can be used to fetch information about specific files within a filesystem. See L for further details. [% USE File('/tmp/foo.html') %] [% File.name %] # foo.html [% File.dir %] # /tmp [% File.mtime %] # modification time =head2 Filter This module implements a base class plugin which can be subclassed to easily create your own modules that define and install new filters. package MyOrg::Template::Plugin::MyFilter; use Template::Plugin::Filter; use base qw( Template::Plugin::Filter ); sub filter { my ($self, $text) = @_; # ...mungify $text... return $text; } # now load it... [% USE MyFilter %] # ...and use the returned object as a filter [% FILTER $MyFilter %] ... [% END %] See L for further details. =head2 Format The Format plugin provides a simple way to format text according to a printf()-like format. See L for further details. [% USE bold = format('%s') %] [% bold('Hello') %] =head2 GD The GD plugins are no longer part of the core Template Toolkit distribution. They are now available in a separate Template-GD distribution. =head2 HTML The HTML plugin is very basic, implementing a few useful methods for generating HTML. It is likely to be extended in the future or integrated with a larger project to generate HTML elements in a generic way (as discussed recently on the mod_perl mailing list). [% USE HTML %] [% HTML.escape("if (a < b && c > d) ..." %] [% HTML.attributes(border => 1, cellpadding => 2) %] [% HTML.element(table => { border => 1, cellpadding => 2 }) %] See L for further details. =head2 Iterator The Iterator plugin provides a way to create a Template::Iterator object to iterate over a data set. An iterator is created automatically by the FOREACH directive and is aliased to the 'loop' variable. This plugin allows an iterator to be explicitly created with a given name, or the default plugin name, 'iterator'. See L for further details. [% USE iterator(list, args) %] [% FOREACH item = iterator %] [% '
    ' IF iterator.first %]
  • [% item %] [% '
' IF iterator.last %] [% END %] =head2 Pod This plugin provides an interface to the L module which parses POD documents into an internal object model which can then be traversed and presented through the Template Toolkit. [% USE Pod(podfile) %] [% FOREACH head1 = Pod.head1; FOREACH head2 = head1/head2; ... END; END %] =head2 String The String plugin implements an object-oriented interface for manipulating strings. See L for further details. [% USE String 'Hello' %] [% String.append(' World') %] [% msg = String.new('Another string') %] [% msg.replace('string', 'text') %] The string "[% msg %]" is [% msg.length %] characters long. =head2 Table The Table plugin allows you to format a list of data items into a virtual table by specifying a fixed number of rows or columns, with an optional overlap. See L for further details. [% USE table(list, rows=10, overlap=1) %] [% FOREACH item = table.col(3) %] [% item %] [% END %] =head2 URL The URL plugin provides a simple way of contructing URLs from a base part and a variable set of parameters. See L for further details. [% USE mycgi = url('/cgi-bin/bar.pl', debug=1) %] [% mycgi %] # ==> /cgi/bin/bar.pl?debug=1 [% mycgi(mode='submit') %] # ==> /cgi/bin/bar.pl?mode=submit&debug=1 =head2 Wrap The Wrap plugin uses the Text::Wrap module by David Muir Sharnoff Emuir@idiom.comE (with help from Tim Pierce and many many others) to provide simple paragraph formatting. See L and L for further details. [% USE wrap %] [% wrap(mytext, 40, '* ', ' ') %] # use wrap sub [% mytext FILTER wrap(40) -%] # or wrap FILTER The Text::Wrap module is available from CPAN: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Text/ =head2 XML::Style This plugin defines a filter for performing simple stylesheet based transformations of XML text. [% USE xmlstyle table = { attributes = { border = 0 cellpadding = 4 cellspacing = 1 } } %] [% FILTER xmlstyle %]
Foo Bar Baz
[% END %] See L for further details. =head2 XML The XML::DOM, XML::RSS, XML::Simple and XML::XPath plugins are no longer distributed with the Template Toolkit as of version 2.15 They are now available in a separate Template-XML distribution. =head1 AUTHOR Andy Wardley Eabw@wardley.orgE L =head1 VERSION Template Toolkit version 2.15, released on 26 May 2006. =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 1996-2006 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut # Local Variables: # mode: perl # perl-indent-level: 4 # indent-tabs-mode: nil # End: # # vim: expandtab shiftwidth=4: